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Can we get and addon pass for the Pig?
I personally think that Pig's power is heavily underrated and is balanced. But what isn't as lucky? Her addons. There are three main problems with them, each of which I'll go over here.
1.Variation
If you take a look at Pig's addons, you'll see that many of them deal with her traps or boxes. This would still be a problem if these were good, but these aren't good at all! Many of them give status effects to the wearer of the RBT, but you won't be chasing them anyway to play Pig effectively so it doesn't matter. There are some good ones, like Tampered Timer (I'll get to that later), Jigsaw's Sketch, Crate of Gears, and Last Will, but that's about it. There are only THREE addons relating to her ambush (medical file, Tape, Syringe) and two relating with her crouch, which are the one and only Combat Straps and Amanda's Letter.
2.Iridescents
Pig's red addons are very weak as well. Amanda's Letter is too punishing and should probably be buffed to two or even three traps but it otherwise is fine, but Rules Set No.2 is what really needs to be changed. If a survivor has an inactive trap on and they see a jigsaw box, their first thought will be "oh well there's a box right there so I might as well get my trap off" which benefits you since the survivor is now off gens and slowing down the game. But with this add-on, they don't see the box and their first thought is to work on the gen, because they don't see the boxes so why go for them? This is why it should not be basekit. Instead it should be reworked so the Pig can see the time left on active RBTs.
3.Tampered Timer
Although this whole thing is about how bad Pig's addons are, this one needs to be talked about as well. It's just too oppressive. When paired with Sketch, the survivor barely has enough time to search all jigsaw boxes, and if they get distracted by anything else it's game over. Crate of Gears has the same results. The point of RBTs is to slow the game down, not to get headpops. This addon isn't op, especially not by itself, but it does need to be reworked because in my personal opinion is it just as unfun as being facecamped. Maybe instead the survivor can't see their death timer and the RBT will randomly beep? (Example: suddenly beeps rapidly to indicate death, then fades to normal. Or the beeping is light but then the survivor dies without warning)
Part 2: My suggestions
I already put in my suggested changes for Tampered Timer and Pig's Iridescent add-ons, so this portion will go after problem 1.
Suggestions to make her addons more varied:
Add addons that increase movement speed while crouched.
Add addons that increase mobility while ambush is charging.
Add addons that increase duration of the ambush attack (aka how long you can lunge)
Add addons that make Jigsaw box skillchecks more difficult.
These could be used in favor of some of the trap or jigsaw box addons.
How to change the existing addons:
In this section I'm going to either suggest changes to addons or rework especially weak addons to fit my suggestions into them.
Remove and replace the status effect ones or tweak them so that they apply their effect after the survivor gets their trap off.
Amanda's Secret: Jigsaw boxes skillchecks are considerably more difficult, failing a skillcheck will cause a survivor's RBT to lose 10 seconds off of its timer. You can no longer see jigsaw box auras once a survivor fails a jigsaw box skillcheck.
Workshop Grease: Slightly increases difficulty of Jigsaw Box skillchecks.
John's Medical File: Slightly increases mobility while charging Ambush.
Barbed Wire: Slightly increases difficulty of Jigsaw box skillchecks, slightly increases penalty for missed skillchecks.
Combat Straps: Make it basekit, maybe replace it with one of the addons I suggested.
Bag of Gears: Replace
Comments
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Maybe instead the survivor can't see their death timer and the RBT will randomly beep?
I had an idea like that for a Pig add-on. Only it was a common.
Anyways, I don't think any of the Pig's add-ons should deal with Skill Checks at all. They are likely to just be trash against good players. John's Medical File idea seems weird; I think it is fine as-is. Combat Straps base kit seems good.
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I only replaced Medical File because in my mind there's not a reason to run it over tape.
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I used to think that too, but the idea is to use it with the tape.
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really? I didn't know they stacked.
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I'd love to see add-ons that change the type of trap she has. For example, an add-on that changes the traps to the laser collar and has a different trigger than gen completion. Give her 3-4 different traps that have different animations and triggers, that way there's a "game" to figuring out how to best play around what trap she's running.
Mostly a flavor/fun change, but I still think it would be a cool change for her.
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